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Thread #156361   Message #3687576
Posted By: Richie
21-Dec-14 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Fair Margaret & Sweet Willliam- Child 74
Subject: RE: Origins: Fair Margaret & Sweet Willliam- Child 74
Here are some of many examples of Margret's suicide;

4 She tossed down her ivory comb,
In silk wrapped up her hair,
And she pitched out of her own bowing-door
And never was no more seen there. [KY]

4 'T was down she threw her ivory comb,
And back she threw her hair,
And from her dormer window she fell,
And was no more seen there. [VA]

Some are not explicit, as in Maybird McAllister's ancient version:

4. Down she tossed her ivory comb,
And back she tossed her hair;
And down from the high-bounded window she came,
And she never was more seen there.

But other's are explicit:

4 Oh down she threw her ivory comb
and down she threw her hair,
And down she fell out of that high window
And never was no more seen there.

Richie